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The efficiencies of the devices were only 2-3%, but Lieber suggests this could be improved.

More efficiency could be a great thing here.
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Jeff Jenkins (647)
Thu May 07 15:05:00 +0000 2009

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Affordable Fossil Fuels Thwarting Renewables

Do you seriously want to "impose electric vehicles" or (I hope) do you mean that the government should support the creation of the appropriate infrastructure? The latter would allow entrepreneurs to be innovative without the cost and risk of building their own infrastructure, while the former just smacks of Soviet-style market authoritarianism. And look how well that worked.
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DavidRea (214)
Sun Dec 28 17:34:06 +0000 2008

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Page: Americans Rejected ‘Drill, Baby, Drill.’ Bush Should Respect Our Choice. - OnEarth Magazine, from NRDC

This is just the beginning of the Bush administration's give aways. I love the southwest and the thought of those exploration trucks destroying the land for an energy source (natural gas) that is nothing more than a stop-gap measure makes me ill. Redford nails it in this post.
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apollo.gonzales (3)
Tue Nov 18 17:44:17 +0000 2008

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Page: Canada Fines Company for Advocating Carpooling : Red, Green, and Blue

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But Trentway-Wagar says its beef was simply that it is unfair they have to meet labor, environmental, and equipment standards to haul passengers around when services like PickupPal can arrange rides without doing any of that.

Yeah I completely understand about being not sure. I feel like Trentway-Wagner just wants to conquer PickupPal and grab their business.
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Maximilian Harmon (21)
Fri Nov 14 05:30:55 +0000 2008

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Page: Canada Fines Company for Advocating Carpooling : Red, Green, and Blue

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But Trentway-Wagar says its beef was simply that it is unfair they have to meet labor, environmental, and equipment standards to haul passengers around when services like PickupPal can arrange rides without doing any of that.

I'm not sure I understand how this is unfair. Is PickupPal profiting from this? The next paragraph says illegal ventures formed around websites like this, but why go after the website instead of the illegal business?
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David Kovsky (373)
Thu Nov 13 17:39:55 +0000 2008

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But Trentway-Wagar says its beef was simply that it is unfair they have to meet labor, environmental, and equipment standards to haul passengers around when services like PickupPal can arrange rides without doing any of that.

Hmmm. I do not know how I feel about this. Trentway-Wagar does have a point but you cannot deny people the right to assembly and finding their own rides. And shouldn't it be the passengers responsibility to check the ride before departing to make sure the necessary safety stickers were in place?
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Maximilian Harmon (21)
Thu Nov 13 04:30:42 +0000 2008

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894,809.072 Watt hours saved

This is a very interesting concept. I personally don't mind the black. I wonder if there could be tests run for the actual legibility difference. It a white background a legacy of the print days?
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Jeff Jenkins (647)
Wed Nov 12 16:55:23 +0000 2008

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I still have it as my default page even though I generally use the Google toolbar.

Something more simple one can do is have a black background for the desktop. It's especially handy for laptops as the battery is used more slowly and it serves the same purpose.
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ballensworth (6)
Wed Nov 12 11:37:45 +0000 2008

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I've heard this elsewhere- that white screens and white backgrounds on websites collectively account to a significant fraction of all global electricity used by computers, and correspondingly to a non-trivial percentage of all electricity over all. The trouble is, most folks prefer a white background for legibility, so it has not caught on as an environmental trend.
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bobby (806)
Sun Oct 26 17:05:48 +0000 2008

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Page: Osmosus - Social Energy for a Green Planet

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Affordable Fossil Fuels Thwarting Renewables

Our culture is built on the automobile - look around you. The shape of our cities and our trnsportation infrastructure has been molded by the car and the freedom of transport it affords.

For most people every car they have ever bought has been 'absolutely necessary' (at least in their own eyes). And until a level playing-field has been created for electric vehicles (via legislation) there ...
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Jason Murphy (51)
Sat Oct 25 07:37:37 +0000 2008

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